Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny arrived in full force this year. Sabrina really "got" the holiday and had a lot of fun with easter egg hunts today. We spent a nice morning at home where the Daddy Bunny set up a couple of egg hunts in the living room and Sabrina did pretty well finding the eggs. She got distracted fairly easily though with the plastic eggs that had treats in them. She kept opening them and saying things like "Dried cherries? Thank you Easter Bunny!" Plus the Easter Bunny brought her a large, hollow, chocolate bunny and that was a big treat for her.
Next we went over to the Yellow House (known to Sabrina as "Liam and Logan's house") where we had a huge egg hunt on their big front yard. There were eggs everywhere! Perfect for little hunters. Celia and Liam definitely had a jump on the "under 3" year olds as they ran out to the yard, but everybody had a great time and ended up with full baskets and full tummies. We filled up even more on delicious eggs benedict, fruit salad and mimosas. We came home mid-afternoon completely sunned out! Brent and I were a little jealous of Sabrina's nap in a cool, dark room all afternoon. But, more baby prepping for us! We're doing very well on our preparations and feeling as ready as we can be. Now just trying to keep up on laundry, picking up around the house, and trying to get ahead on the yard work. Brent is also taking a course on Natural Language Processing through Stanford this semester and he's trying to work ahead in that so he can spend time with the baby (and Sabrina!) once he/she arrives. We're keeping busy, that's for sure.

Liz Connolly and I looked longingly at Cara's wonderfully flat tummy and beautiful little boy all day today...we're both still about 2 weeks away from our due dates and we're ready for the next phase! Baby Cody (Carmichael) is adorable and sweet and spent the day snuggled inside the Moby wrap with Cara or enjoying the shade inside the house. I'm sure Casey and Celia shared all their good "Big Sister" tips with Sabrina and Lily while they were egg hunting. They're the experts now! Sabrina will get her chance soon enough. Although hopefully not until after Wednesday, the 11th, when Nana (aka our birth doula) gets back from visiting Tim and Erica's new baby, Lindsey, in Boston! Thankfully Poppy has agreed to stick around to watch Sabrina in case we go into labor early. Having had a conversation with Gnocchi, we think he/she understands not to come out until at least later this week. Here's hoping!